Bracket for supporting objects and especially for securing number plates



July 31, p23- 1,463,358 A. w. coRDEs BRACKET FOR SUPPORTING OBJECTS ANDESPECIALLY FOR SECURING NUMBER PLATES Filgd Dec. 6 1921 ial Patented July 31 1923.

AUGUST W. CORDES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PATENT omen.

BRACKET FOR surroa'rmo OBJECTS AND ESPECIALLY roa snonme naming.

PLATES.

Application filed December 6,1921. Serial K0 520358. f

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Aucusr W. CoRoEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 800 Riverside Drive, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful bracket for supporting objects and especially for securing number plates, tail lights, safety signs, and other auxiliaries to automobiles, of which the following is a. specification.

My invention relates to composite universal brackets, consisting of base members capable of being secured to any vertical, inclined, curved or convex surfaces, the members spaced apart and distributing the strain over an extended area and having these members hingedly connected to bracket members for the articles to be carried. This arrangement permits of adjusting in their relative positions of the base and bracket members and of introducing a number of separate brackets, carrying different articles, separately hinged on the same axle. The oppositely arranged base members are provided with eyed lugs fitting a line between the opposite legs and being hinged, adjust themselves to curved surfaces. Hinged to the same axle are supporting members or brackets adapted to receive the intended articles. The brackets are adjustable in relation to the base and with themselves, as will be readily seen by the accompanying drawings in which similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout.

Fig. 1 is a front view of a composite bracket attached to a fender.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. l on the line gh with a tail light attached to the center bracket.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of Fig. 1 through the center of the axle and the side brackets.

Fig. 4 is a section of Fig. 3 on line cd.

Fig. 5 is a front view of one of the legs.

Fig. 6 is a section through the same leg on the line v'k.

Fig. 7 is a front view of a vertical side bracket to take the place of the horizontal side brackets s shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is a section through the same bracket,

Fig. 9 is a rear view of the center bracket,

Fig. 10 is a horizontal section of the center bracket,

Fig. 11 is a vertical section of the same bracket;

Fig. 12 is a side View of the horizontal side bracket of Fig. 1.

Fig. 13 is a section on the line l--m of Fig. 12.

The different numbers indicate the following lparts: 1 is a bracing member between the egs 6 which are connected by plate 7, 2 is the axle to which the legs 6 are hinged, 3 is the screw-nut on both ends of the axle, 4 indicates the eyed lugs of the legs 6 by which the bracket is tangently secured to a curved surface 15, 8 indicates a tail light secured to plate 7, 9 is the leg of a horizontal side bracket b which it is hinged to the axle 2, 10 is t e front and 13 a stiffening j amb of the same bracket, 12 is the front of a vertical side bracket, 11 are the screw bolts securing the eyed lugs 4 to the curved surface 15, 14 represents the sectional view of the number plate.

If the surface is convex the resilient lugs (4) can be easily bent or drawn into close contact by the bolts securing them to the intended surface.

In order to QaciIitate adjusting, it is useful to have one pair of parallel legs permanently connected with the separator, only the other pair remaining to be adjusted. I prefer to have the separator (1) made of wood, being lighter and cheaper than metal and affording stronger friction. The separator is provided with a groove for receiving the conduit for the light. After the different parts are once adjusted, a hole can be easily drilled through the hinge members into the wooden separator and a locking screw inserted making any shifting on the road impossible.

The diameter of the separator is made purposely large to increase the friction and to shorten the exposed parts of the legs, giving them, though stamped out of thin metal, great resistance. The jambs (7) in Fig. 2 could be made an integral part of the tail light or any other fixture instead of being a part of the bracket, as shown.

Many different forms and combinations could be made without deviating from the principles involved in this invention for which I claim as new the following:

A igiii grsalibi fipkfi forigaiigying' arti'c e'S adaptable to 'cilrved siu fao'es, comprising a screw bolt forming a common axle upon which separatemembersier eerrying the article and other members for fisfifiiiig the breekets'are hinged; we tenin place at an angle to eaoh'other and actin as a trussed support for the axle, the legs e'u'rve surfaces "by redu'bing 'the angle be members consisting of opposite legshaving eyed lugs fitting the base of a triangle formed 10 the base and the legs, the tip'igfifitlj' 1l i15tible to tween the opposite legs, the legs to be spaced gpart-by a sepamt-ing member.

7 AUGUST W CQRDES. \Vitnesses L. VREELAND, P. Rmshmz. 

